Interview with Thierry Frémaux

George Lucas Honorary Palme d’or of the 77th Festival de Cannes

A Hollywood legend, the director, screenwriter and producer George Lucas will receive the Honorary Palme d’or on Saturday, May 25, at the Closing Ceremony of the 77th Festival de Cannes, to be broadcast live on French TV channel France 2.

Studio Ghibli Honorary Palme d’or of the 77th Festival de Cannes

The Festival de Cannes is honoring a cinema legend, awarding its Honorary Palme d’or for the first time to a group: Studio Ghibli. 

Alongside the Hollywood greats, the Japanese studio embodied by two superb storytellers, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, and a host of cult characters, has unleashed a fresh wind on animated film over the past four decades.

Greta Gerwig

Jury President of the 77th Cannes Film Festival

·    GRETA GERWIG – United States – Director, screenwriter, actress (PRESIDENT)

·    EBRU CEYLAN - Screenwriter, photographer - Turkey

·    LILY GLADSTONE – Actress - United States

·    EVA GREEN – Actress - France

·    NADINE LABAKI - Director, screenwriter - Lebanon

·    JUAN ANTONIO BAYONA - Director, producer, screenwriter - Spain

·    PIERFRANCESCO FAVINO – Actor - Italy

·    KORE-EDA HIROKAZU – Director - Japan

·    OMAR SY - Actor, producer - France

Xavier Dolan

President of the Un Certain Regard Jury of the 77th Festival de Cannes

·    XAVIER DOLAN - Actor, director, screenwriter, producer – Canada (PRÉSIDENT)

·    MAÏMOUNA DOUCOURÉ - Screenwriter, director - France, Senegal

·    ASMAE EL MOUDIR - Director, screenwriter, producer - Morocco

·    VICKY KRIEPS - Actress - Luxembourg, Germany

·    TODD MCCARTHY - Film critic, director, writer - United States

LUBNA AZABAL

President of the SHORT FILM AND LA CINEF

·    LUBNA AZABAL – Actress – Belgium (PRESIDENT)

·    MARIE-CASTILLE MENTION-SCHAAR - Director, screenwriter, producer - France

·    PAOLO MORETTI - Film programmer - Italy

·    CLAUDINE NOUGARET - Producer, director - France

·    VLADIMIR PERIŠIĆ - Director, screenwriter - Serbia

Baloji and Emmanuelle Béart

will co-preside over the Caméra d’or Jury of the 77th Festival de Cannes

·    BALOJI - Director, songwriter, artistic director (CO-PRESIDENT)

·    EMMANUELLE BÉART - Actress, director, producer (CO-PRESIDENT)

·    GILLES PORTE (AFC) - Director of photography

·    PASCAL BURON (FICAM) - DGM HR & Support at TSF

·    ZOÉ WITTOCK (SRF) - Screenwriter, director

·    NATHALIE CHIFFLET (SFCC) - Cinema and culture section editor (EBRA), Treasurer of SFCC

Quentin Dupieux’s new comedy to open the 77th Festival de Cannes

Quentin Dupieux’s Le Deuxième Acte (The Second Act), the latest film from the prolific French director and screenwriter, who is also a musician, will open the forthcoming Festival de Cannes. Presented Out of Competition as a world premiere on the Croisette on Tuesday, May 14, this four-part comedy will be released in all French cinemas on the same day.

1. THE APPRENTICE by Ali ABBASI

2. MOTEL DESTINO by Karim AÏNOUZ

3. BIRD by Andrea ARNOLD

4. EMILIA PEREZ by Jacques AUDIARD

5. ANORA by Sean BAKER

6. MEGALOPOLIS by Francis Ford COPPOLA

7. THE SHROUDS by David CRONENBERG

8. THE SUBSTANCE by Coralie FARGEAT

9. GRAND TOUR by Miguel GOMES

10.    MARCELLO MIO by Christophe HONORÉ

11.    FENG LIU YI DAI by JIA Zhang-Ke (CAUGHT BY THE TIDES)

12.    ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by Payal KAPADIA

13.    KINDS OF KINDNESS by Yórgos LÁNTHIMOS

14.    L’AMOUR OUF by Gilles LELLOUCHE

15.    DIAMANT BRUT by Agathe RIEDINGER (WILD DIAMOND)

16.    OH CANADA by Paul SCHRADER

17.    LIMONOV – THE BALLAD by Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV

18.    PARTHENOPE by Paolo SORRENTINO

19.    PIGEN MED NÅLEN by Magnus VON HORN (THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE)

20.    LA PLUS PRÉCIEUSE DES MARCHANDISES by Michel Hazanavicius

21.    TREI KILOMETRI PANA LA CAPATUL LUMII by Emanuel Parvu (Trois kilomètres jusqu’à la fin du monde)

22.    THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG by Mohammad Rasoulof

When the light breaks 

by Rúnar Rúnarsson

1. NORAH  by Tawfik ALZAIDI

2. THE SHAMELESS by Konstantin BOJANOV

3. LE ROYAUME by Julien COLONNA

4. VINGT DIEUX! by Louise COURVOISIER

5. LE PROCÈS DU CHIEN by Laetitia DOSCH (WHO LET THE DOG BITE?)

6. GOU ZHEN by GUAN Hu (BLACK DOG)

7. THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE by Mo HARAWE

8. SEPTEMBER SAYS by Ariane LABED

9. L’HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE by Boris LOJKINE

10.    THE DAMNED by Roberto MINERVINI

11.    ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL by Rungano NYONI

12.    BOKU NO OHISAMA by Hiroshi OKUYAMA (MY SUNSHINE)

13.    SANTOSH by Sandhya SURI

14.    VIET AND NAM by TRUONG Minh Quý

15.    ARMAND by Halfdan ULLMANN TØNDEL

16.    WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS by Rúnar Rúnarsson

17.    NIKI by Céline Sallette

18.    FLOW by Gints Zilbalodis

1. SHE’S GOT NO NAME by CHAN Peter Ho-Sun

2. HORIZON, AN AMERICAN SAGA by Kevin COSTNER

3. RUMOURS by Evan JOHNSON, Galen JOHNSON, Guy MADDIN

4. FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA by George MILLER

5. LE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO by Alexandre De La Patellière et Matthieu Delaporte

1. TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIOR WALLED IN by Soi CHEANG

2. THE SURFER by Lorcan FINNEGAN

3. LES FEMMES AU BALCON by Noémie MERLANT (THE BALCONETTES)

4. I, THE EXECUTIONER by RYOO Seung Wan

1. EVERYBODY LOVES TOUDA by Nabil AYOUCH

2. C’EST PAS MOI by Leos  CARAX

3. EN FANFARE by Emmanuel COURCOL (THE MATCHING BANG)

4. MISÉRICORDE by Alain GUIRAUDIE

5. LE ROMAN DE JIM by Arnaud LARRIEU and Jean-Marie LARRIEU

6. RENDEZ-VOUS AVEC POL POT by Rithy PANH

7. VIVRE, MOURIR, RENAITRE by Gaël Morel

8. MARIA by Jessica Palud

1. LE FIL by Daniel AUTEUIL

2. ERNEST COLE, LOST AND FOUND by Raoul PECK

3. THE INVASION  by Sergei LOZNITSA

4. APPRENDRE by Claire SIMON

5. LA BELLE DE GAZA by Yolande ZAUBERMAN

6. SPECTATEURS by Arnaud Desplechin

7. NASTY by Tudor Giurgiu

8. LULA by Oliver Stone

9. AN UNFINISHED FILM by Lou Ye

The Cannes Classics selection, created twenty years ago, once again features celebrations, restored prints and documentaries. It will be marked by the presence of great artists: Faye Dunaway, Wim Wenders, Sylvia Chang, Costa-Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Marco Bellocchio, Ron Howard, Frederick Wiseman, Dong-ho Kim, Montxo Armendáriz and more, to visit the history of cinema with those who preserve and restore our heritage, those who distribute and show films, film librarians and laboratories, festivals from all over the world, public institutions, 2024 festival-goers, loyal Cannes Cinéphiles accredited members and young 3 Three Days in Cannes spectators. Welcome!

EVENTS

100 years of Columbia Pictures

·      GILDA Charles Vidor - 1946, 1h50, United States

The 40th anniversary of Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders, Palme d’or 1984

·      PARIS, TEXAS Wim Wenders - 1984, 2h28, West Germany/France

Le siècle de Costa-Gavras

·      LA VÉRITÉ EST RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE – L’AVEU Directed by Yannick Kergoat, written by Edwy Plenel - 2024, 52mins, France

The ultimate film of Jean-Luc Godard

·      SCÉNARIOS Jean-Luc Godard - 2024, 18mn et 34mn, France/Japan

The 70th birthday of the Seven Samourai

·      THE SEVEN SAMOURAI (Les Sept Samouraïs) Akira Kurosawa - 1954, 3h27, Japan

The complete works of Frederick Wiseman

·      LAW AND ORDER Frederick Wiseman - 1969, 1h21, United States

Raymond Depardon Photographer

·      LES ANNÉES DÉCLIC (The Declic Years) Raymond Depardon - 1984, 1h07, France

Lucy Barreto, a producer in Brasil

·      BYE BYE BRASIL (Bye bye Brésil) Carlos Diegues - 1970, 1h42, Brazil

The 60th anniversary of Jacques Demy’s Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Palme d’or 1964

·      THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG Jacques Demy - 1964, 1h32, France

JACQUES DEMY, LE ROSE ET LE NOIR

·      Florence Platarets - 2024, 1h28, France

NORAH  by Tawfik ALZAIDI

Eureka, a spiritual journey with Lisandro Alonso

Kevin Costner and Horizon, An American Saga at the 77th Festival de Cannes

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga World Premiere at the 77th Festival de Cannes